The Latest Breaking News on Native America

LGBTQ+ advocates criticize decision by Oklahoma authorities not to prosecute over incident preceding trans teen’s suicide

Rates are so bad in Native American communities that public health experts have asked the federal government to declare an emergency. Inadequate prenatal care may be partly to blame.

Benedict was attacked at their Oklahoma high school, and found dead at home the next day. The medical examiner's office says the nonbinary 16-year-old died by suicide. Their family has questions.

Until now, only one other federal informant was known to be in the camps

Bertha Aguilar is harvesting potatoes on the shores of Lake Titicaca when her phone rings.

Five years in the making, We Are Guardians takes a hard look at the complexity of the struggle between Indigenous people, loggers and ranchers

Welcome to the Thursday, March 14, Brew. 

Organizer Ivan Santiago told The Latin Times that the goal for 2025 is to take the festival to a broader audience

"It represents a resistance against the loss of our identity while being in a culturally different country," Organizer Ivan Santiago told The Latin Times.

Across California, voters decided on 138 local ballot measures, in addition to the statewide measure, Proposition 1, on March 5. While we are awaiting finalized results for the ballot measures, below is a selection of local ballot measure outcomes, which addressed policing, voter ID, school curriculums, and more:

Biden administration funds renewable energy projects in rural and Native American areas to enhance clean energy access and infrastructure.